week. but there is good news out there, very good news, and it s right there on your screen. those right there are the average number of covid hospitalizations in the u.s. and despite all of those cases i just told you about, hospitalizations have not budged. they re essentially flat over the past week. deaths are up a bit. but that s just over 5%. here s potentially more good news, when omicron was discovered in south africa a month ago, their cases were going straight up. they doubled. then they doubled again. last friday, their average number of cases peaked and they have been dropping ever since. south africa s top scientists told the washington post that he expects other countries will follow the same trajectory and said the u.s. could see a similar drop in cases in the next couple of weeks. of course we ve got a lot to get to here, but first, i want to go through every tool in our tool box because we want to keep people from suffering. we want to keep people from just
is leaving tells you a lot about the trajectory of the modern republican party. to the old model of republicans was you stuck it out so you could reel the power of the state you could reel that power for all types of pressure this. the goal was wielding power to the service of some governing agenda that is why people got in politics, and that is less and less the case. congressman devin nunes who joined as a 29 year old, it s currently serving his tenth term is retiring to run donald trump s new grift. that is right, nunes will become ceo of the trump medium technology group which even as far as start-ups go, is particularly questionable. it is supposed to be a social media company, but in typical trump fashion right now more like a half baked idea with his name on it. also in typical trump fashion, the company is already being investigated by federal regulators. it s truly an incredible record to get your first sec investigation, before you ever have a product. so that is wh
save the u.s. and that s just one of the troubling results. and another airline hit by massive cancellations. and if you make it on the plane you might be met by aggressive passengers. the serious new action proposed by the transportation secretary ahead. hello and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. joe manchin now publicly refusing to commit to vote for the president s economic and climate agenda without seeing the final text first. and working through some issues. now the house of representatives had hoped to vote on this legislation this week and now it s not clear that that s going to happen. the timing could not be worse for president biden who is trying to rebuild trust with world leaders at the cop26 climate talks in scotland. president biden today apologizing to the world saying u.s. actions under president trump put america, quote, behind the 8 ball. biden eager to convince his peers that america is recommitted to slowing the warming of the planet. and wor
why did president biden say that he has been to the border? peter, as you may have seen there has been reporting that h did drive through the border when he was on the campaign trail in 2008. a drive through, years ago, and, discovered that might even be an overstatement. as more schools try to cancel halloween in the name of equity and inclusion. they re are breaking new details , on the circumstances and a prop gun. that killed the director of photography and enjoyed the director. thursday nights and even town hall performance sent fact checkers scrambling. laura blanchard is digging into the details for us tonight. good evening, lauren. jen psaki had her work cut out for her clarifying or spending some of the answers that president biden gave to cn on thursday at. starting with why he hasn t gon to see the situation on the u.s mexican border himself. he does not need a visit to the border to see what a mess was left by the leicester ministration. speaking amasses
why? because those who empowered this, ignored it, also empowered it, but all of them collectively. they are still in power and the rebuttal is proof that the big lie will not die. in their defense of trump you don t just see a disservice to justice but clear proof they are in service to him and his lies about the election. starting with their defense. trump didn t do anything wrong because the coup didn t happen. this is the same lame defense, the same people gave trump on that ukraine shakedown. well, ukraine didn t comply with putting out dirt on biden to get the meeting and other goodies from trump and the united states government so no harm. you know an act does not have to be completed for there to be a crime. right? a crime can be incomplete. aka attempted. for example, if i try to rob you but i fail, it s not okay. we all get this. and so do trump s defenders. but this is not about logic. ranking member chuck grassley s office put out this report, the president pro